Nonlinear Effects in Photonic Materials - Abstract

Gallmann, Lukas

Few-cycle pulse generation through optical filamentation in rare gases and its spectral and spatio-temporal characterization

Optical filamentation is a recent method for the generation of few-cycle pulses. We compare this method to the classical hollow-core fiber technique. Furthermore, the spectral and spatio-temporal properties of the filament output was investigated in detail and compared with theoretical predictions.